When running an Internet business, trust is one of the most valuable commodities a business has. That’s why I was so surprised to discover that Teleflora seems to operate on what appears to be an unscrupulous business model.

For my wife’s parent’s big wedding anniversary she ordered this:

What they actually got was this:

Besides the fact that it only had a handful of the roses, the most ridiculous part is that the little white flowers they included rather than th...

Some of you know Kris Kwilas as Nakor around here. He’s been with Stardock since, I think, 1996. Last week he’s moved from our VP of Technology to being a consultant. He’s going off to do new and great things. It’s been a long planned move. He gave me a 2 year notice that he was eventually going to do it. But I feel like my right arm is missing.

Our management team continues to evolve. We’ll have to do a new management page. These days it’s:

And I have a lot to be thankful for. In no particular order, here are some things that I am very very thankful for.

#1 My Wife and kids.

My wife and I have been together over 20 years. I love her so much. We met in college during an..incident in EE lab (you do not want me to work on anything that actually involves electricity). Since then, we've had 3 wonderful children. I am very thankful for them in ways that I think many can appr...

A good friend of mine sent me a link to this episode of “The Moth”: http://themoth.org/posts/stories/anonymous

It’s about a popular teacher who nearly saw his career ruined by hateful, anonymous rivals who took snippets from his blog to paint a horrible, completely inaccurate picture of him. It illustrates the disproportionate power of cowardly, anonymous people have to inflict harm on others.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on Walt Disney recently and he tale is both amazing and quintessential. His professional life was a conflict between his desire to do amazing work with the challenges of running a business.

Early in his career, Disney was devoted to moving “cartooning” into being a serious art. His first true sound cartoon, the famous Steamboat Willy, required the invention of numerous new technologies in order to synchronize the sound with the animation. It was ...

Great article by someone who got seriously harassed by a so-called Internet troll.

http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html?m=1

I've had to deal with a lot of crap over the years due to idiots on the net. The most recent due to gullible people buying into things they read on the net without critical thinking. Every comments section is filled these losers who regurgitate crap they read somewhere with no inkling of the reality of the topic. People like that do that not just ...

One of the things that I really enjoy doing is posting Stardock’s dirty laundry. This is the kind of thing that only a private company can really do.

I don’t really look at it as “bashing” Stardock when I post critics and admissions to the imperfections of our products. Rather, I look at it as a type of transparency. It lets people know that we see a problem and are aware of it.

Of course, the downside is that you occasionally get haters who see our admission...

Some of my friends were surprised I didn’t get one earlier. I have a 20kw solar array that provided more than 100% of my electrical needs. So why didn’t I get a Tesla when they first started coming out? The short answer: I didn’t think they were practical at the time.

When the Roadster came out in 2009, it’s theoretical 240 miles (realistic, 190 mile) range wasn’t far enough for me to do serious distance yet. Remember, in ...

If the Roomba would just empty its bin on its own, it would be a completely autonomous vacuum system. I wish there was an AI bot that could just block posts and messages from friends when they’re about politics. I don’t care which monster you want to support. You’re still supporting a monster. There are not enough bike paths to my office here in Canton/Plymouth Michigan. Nothing reminds you of your mortality like having a car zip past you going 5...